Gears of War 3

Campaign Information

Features

* Rod confirmed 4 Player Co-Op in the Gears IRC, with 4 unique characters. Rod confirmed that co-op includes Marcus, Dom, Cole, Baird and a "variety of other characters". Cliff confirms that at some points in the game you will play as an entirely different squad (that includes no Marcus and no Dom).

Story

* The story is written by fantastic author Karen Traviss, who wrote the Gears of War book series
* Set 18 months after Gears of War 2, and after the fourth Gears of War book.
* The Coalition has disbanded or dismantled. Everyone is essentially a Stranded.
* The Locust have not been seen in the time that has passed since the end of Gears 2 and the beginning of Gears 3
* The location shown in the "Ashes to Ashes" trailer is a location nicknamed 'Char', where the remains of victims from the Hammer of Dawn strikes are heavily present.
* Imulsion is infecting everything, not just the Locust. The Lambent are a ton of different nightmarish creatures.

Weapons

* The Pendulum Lancer is in Gears of War 3
* A Double Barrelled Shotgun was spotted in the Ashes to Ashes trailer. Lee Perry expands:

FWIW, that weapon didn't exist until several hundred pages of the shotgun mechanic thread. That doesn't really give much away, considering the VAST amount of conflicting opinions in that thread; but the opinions in that thread definitely helped shape the weapon.

Haha, I wonder if we could have made a trailer with basically a slow camera pan down a new shotgun and had about the same amount of interest from existing players, hahha.

Cliff also confirms in the MeriStation TV interview that the new shotgun does more damage but has a lower range and slower reload time than the Gnasher shotgun

Characters

* Dom is now heavily bearded. According to Rod, this is due to his problems dealing with the loss of his wife.
* Anya is the female COG soldier seen in the "Ashes to Ashes" trailer. We will learn more on her transition from pencil pusher to soldier throughout the books.

Enemies

* Lambent Locust: These enemies mutate and transform as you fight them.

Multiplayer Information

Matchmaking

* Cliff confirmed they are tackling the bad matchmaking issues in Gears of War 3 in the Meristation TV interview. He mentions improved region filtering as one of the ways they are addressing this issue.
* There will be a new feature that allows players to stay together as a party. Details will be released later. This presumably covers random people you meet in matchmaking, as Gears already allows for group matchmaking.

Maps

* Cliff confirmed in the MeriStation TV interview that Gears of War 3 will include some old Gears of War 1 favorites that we didn't see in Gears of War 2

HM wrote:If it aint broke....

Microsoft has accidentally announced Gears of War 3 on Xbox Live.

As you can see by the picture on this page, the platform holder accidentally put an ad for the game on Xbox Live this morning, including a release date of April 2011.

More soon.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/ar ... ?id=242129

Dalagonash wrote:I hate mechs at the best of times.

Albear wrote:

Dalagonash wrote:I hate mechs at the best of times.

OH IT'S SO OVER.


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*Strangles household pet*

Albear wrote:07590010148

In case you hadn't guessed it after last week's Xbox Live blunder, NBC's Jon Friedman has confirmed that Cliff Bleszinski will be revealing Gears of War 3 on tonight's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon show.

Posting on the official Late Night with Jimmy Fallon blog, Friedman told viewers to "stay tuned for a preview of Gears of War 3 tonight! For reals!"

So get yourself some popcorn and gather round the sofa: the future of Marcus, Dom et al will all be revealed in a couple of hours.

UPDATE: A second post from NBC's Cory Cavin has confirmed that "exclusive footage from GOW3" will be shown on the show tonight. Get excited.